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"Come do these Western blots" had me cracking up.

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🎉 @YangfanPeng erhält eine Emmy Noether-Förderung zum Aufbau einer Arbeitsgruppe für die Erforschung neuronaler Netzwerke. Der Neurowissenschaftler an der #CharitéBerlin will herausfinden, wie Nervenzellen in lokalen Netzwerken miteinander kommunizieren, um unser Verständnis von Bewegungssteuerung zu vertiefen. 🧠 Gratulation und viel Erfolg!

👉 https://www.charite.de/forschung/themen_forschung/wie_kommunizieren_nervenzellen

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🧠 Changes in neural connections due to substance use and withdrawal are long-lasting, and craving can peak well into abstinence. Understanding this process could inspire drugs to support recovery.

✍️ Emma Yasinski: https://knowablemagazine.org/content/article/mind/2026/what-addiction-does-to-synapses-in-brain

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Our made-up stories sometimes come with made-up languages — think of Na’vi spoken in Avatar or the Elvish tongues in Lord of the Rings.

When crafting such tongues, linguists often begin with an inventory of sounds and then develop the rules that dictate how those sounds interact.

✍️ Maria Temming, Science News
https://www.sciencenews.org/article/conlang-fictional-languages-linguistics

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🍜 When it comes to comfort food, the psychological connection may matter more than the food itself.

Recent research suggests that while the mood-boosting effects of comfort food are genuine, it may not be only the act of eating that provides them. Just thinking about your culinary source of comfort could evoke similarly warm, nostalgic feelings.

✍️ Debbie Koenig: https://knowablemagazine.org/content/article/food-environment/2026/why-we-crave-comfort-food

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A small trial testing the effectiveness of customized mRNA vaccines for treating pancreatic cancer has some promising new results. Seven of the eight people who responded to the treatment are still alive six years later, compared with only two of the eight people who didn’t respond, a team reports at NBC News.

https://www.nbcnews.com/health/cancer/pancreatic-cancer-mrna-vaccine-shows-lasting-results-early-trial-rcna331969

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